Apple says Do Not Disturb will fix itself on January 7, until then you're on your own

Apple has released a knowledge base article that says iOS 6's Do Not Disturb scheduling feature, which for some reason decided to take the New Year off, will start working again on January 7. Apple also recommend that, until then, anyone experiencing the issue turn Do Not Disturb on and off manually.

Apple doesn't explain what caused the issue to begin with, or whether or not they'll fix it in the next software update so it doesn't happen again in the future. (Though presumably they will issue a fix, given how often time-based problems have plagued iOS, a little reassurance that Apple takes it seriously would be nice.)

Have you experienced problems with Do Not Disturb staying off, or refusing to turn off, since New Years? If so, is Apple's response enough to mollify you?

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Apple says Do Not Disturb will fix itself on January 7, until then you're on your own

Well that explains why my DND didn't turn off this morning LOL. Does the answer mollify me....not really... They should have forsaw this since they have had issues with time based stuff in the past...Bonehead move...

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If it was any other company, people would be up in arms. Apple gets yet another free pass to yet another iOS time bug, we get them every year. I got the DND in my iPhone and iPad. Not so serious on the iPad, but very serious on the iPhone, which can cost people phone calls they would rather not miss.

It is a serious drawback for a company that is trying to position itself on the corporate market as well. Lucky for Apple, its fan base will rush to minimize the problem and pretend it never existed.

Gosh darn it, I'm an American and I want every bit of cutting edge technology to work flawlessly from day one no matter how many great things it does for me day-in-and-day-out or I'm gonna have a tantrum!!

While in the grand scheme of things, this isn't a huge issue, it is extremely annoying given the past issues with time based things. They are a multi-billion dollar company. You'd think they could afford at least one guy whose sole job is to check for these issues in the code. It's happened enough to be embarrassing at the least.

This may just be me... but my phone no longer vibrates. I have the same bug with DND not turning off and alerts coming through when DND is enabled. On top of which, flipping the switch to silent mode shows that it's silenced on the screen, but phone will not vibrate at all.

Anyone else having the same issue? Or is my three week old phone defective?

What's even sillier is that Apple's workaround - to turn DND on and off manually - defeats the purpose of the feature completely. I have DND set to turn on at 1AM and off at 8AM. I'm not planning to wake up at 8AM every day to make sure I turn it off manually.

I find the DND feature very handy as my family and close friends can still contact me but I'm no longer disturbed by game notifications. However, it would be even better if it still worked without having to lock the screen. Up until DND was released, I always used a sleep app to monitor my sleeping but I can no longer use this as screen had to be locked for DND to work. Update so it works with screen unlocked so other apps can run??

That's an option, to work even while using the iPhone. Which kind of makes sense. "I'm busy working, don't disturb me" or even "Don't disturb others just because I'm using it for e-mail, I still don't want you to ring out loud".